The Netter Center is currently operating remotely. Please contact nettercenter@upenn.edu for general inquiries.
View the latest "Letter from Netter": Information & Virtual Enrichment Activities for University-Assisted Community Schools families.
For Penn Faculty
To support the creation and implementation of Academically Based Community Service (ABCS) courses, the Netter Center offers the following resources:
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Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
- Provost/ Netter Center Faculty-Community Partnership Awards
- Access to institutional community partnerships through the Netter Center
- Transportation (Van Service or SEPTA Tokens)
- Clearances and Background Checks for students working with minors
- Thematic Faculty-led Seminars
- Academically Based Community Service (ABCS) Teaching
- Facilitated by Lori Flanagan-Cato, Associate Professor of Psychology, Co-Director of the Biological Basis of Behavior Program, and Netter Center Faculty Fellow
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
- Facilitated by Carol Muller, Professor of Music, School of Arts and Sciences
- Public Schools
- Facilitated by John Puckett, Professor, Graduate School of Education
- College Access, Career Readiness, and Democracy
- Facilitated by Laura Perna, James S. Riepe Professor, Graduate School of Education
- Improving Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Undergraduate Education through K-20+ Partnerships
- Facilitated by Dennis DeTurck, Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor, and Professor of Mathematics
- Environment and Health
- Facilitated by Richard Pepino, Lecturer, Earth and Environmental Science and Fred Scatena, Professor and Chair Emeritus, Earth and Environmental Science
- Sociology Departmental Seminar
- Facilitated by Emilio Parrado, Chair and Professor of Sociology, Director of Latin American and Latino Studies; Melissa Wilde, Associate Professor of Sociology
- Academically Based Community Service (ABCS) Teaching
- Additional resources available on the following topics upon request:
- ABCS & Service Learning
- Reflection
- History of West Philadelphia/Penn
- K12 Lesson Planning/Student Engagement/Classroom Management
- Problem-Solving Learning and Participatory Action Research
- Questions of Race, Class and Privilege
- School District of Philadelphia
- Anchor Institutions
- Democracy, Community Schools and University-Community Partnerships
- Netter Center & Related Faculty Publications
For more information, please contact:
- Faustine Sun (General ABCS Coordinator) abcscoordinator@sas.upenn.edu
- Jarrett Stein (Food and Nutrition Partnership Courses) steinjm@sas.upenn.edu
- Richard Carter (STEM Partnership Courses) carterri@sas.upenn.edu